⭐ New Features

• Add FunctionalInterface annotation where appropriate #4107
• Add FieldExtractor implementation for Java records #4159
• Configure the right FieldExtractor based on the type of items in FlatFileItemWriterBuilder #4161
• Configure the right FieldSetMapper based on the type of items in FlatFileItemReaderBuilder #4160
• Change transaction manager type to JdbcTransactionManager in default batch configuration #4126

🚀 Enhancements

• Replace deprecated IntegrationFlows #4155
• Rename SimpleJobLauncher to TaskExecutorJobLauncher #4123
• Reduce use of deprecated APIs #4120

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Unable to build the project without an internet connection #4152
• Add missing initialized flag set to FlowJob #4142
• Unable to register an annotation-based StepExecutionListener in a fault-tolerant step #4137
• Fix tests catching nested exceptions #4136
• Unable to read XML data without spring-tx in the classpath #4132
• Maven surefire uses wrong provider for Spring Batch Core #4121
• Lost transactionAttribute when using chaining StepBuilder #3686
• ItemReadListener not being correctly registered after adding a StepExecutionListener #773
• Cannot subclass final class com.sun.proxy.$Proxy202 #793
• StepBuilderFactory Only Supports Listener Annotations, Not Listener Interfaces #1098

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-M4
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-M3
• Upgrade to Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0-M5
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.10.0-M3
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.1.1.Final

📔 Documentation

• Add package-info.java to integration #4141
• Editing pass #4163
• Javadoc editing #4158
• Improve Javadocs #4129

:heart: Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

• @Buzzardo
• @jonatan-ivanov
• @hpoettker
• @acktsap

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/compare/5.0.0-M3...5.0.0-M4